Sunday Tournament Report 8/17/2008
Posted on 18 August 2008 at 1:53 pm EDT by bigspenda73 | Permalink
Full-Tilt’s Online Poker Series highlighted a Sunday chalk-full of large MTTs with huge prize pools. With the PokerStars Sunday Million now being a $1.5 million guarantee there was plenty of money in play for the high-stakes tournament players. Both FTOPs events had prize-pools over $2,000,000 making this Sunday the biggest of the year to date.
The Sunday Million was absent of a big-name winner as player “Gunslinger3″ took down first place and over $140,000 after a five-way chop.
1. Gunslinger3 $140,921.00
2. M.nosbocaJ $89,013
3. OCTAGONS $83,907
4. RBC* $121,197
5. bastinho06 $88,441
6. x-13 $39,020.10
7. Neab $26,778.50
8. exomil $17,597.30
9. Octavian_C $10,711.40
1,040 players accumulated a prize-pool of $520,000 for PokerStars weekly $250k guaranteed and in the end it was “RajaPaki13″ who took home first and just over $94,000 in prize money. Michael “bonzo9876″ Katz took home second place and over $68,000. Katz is a well-known online MTT player having placed second in the $100+9 rebuy on PokerStars in the past. Busting out first at the final table is notable Limit-Hold’em professional Ian Johns “Ian J”. Ian can be found playing mid-high stakes LHE and creating videos for a leading poker instructional site.
1. RajaPaki13 $94,432.00
2. bonzo9876 $68,640.00
3. DiPollo $52,000.00
4. turnipdastr8 $39,000.00
5. 777MORTEN $27,300.00
6. chipitmyway $22,100.00
7. Tulkaz $16,900.00
8. luchador420 $11,700.00
9. Ian J $7,280.00
Well known MTT player “JSchnett” added another huge score to his resume’ with a second place finish in the PokerStars Warm-Up for $75,000. This eclipsed his previous biggest cash, a 3rd place finish in the Full Tilt $750k for $62,000. He was defeated by “GrtWhtHype”, an online player whose biggest score until yesdterday was just $6,000.
1. GrtWhtHype $105,000.00
2. JSchnett $75,000.00
3. CoooKay $52,500.00
4. mattster24 $39,375.00
5. Stajje $31,500.00
6. QuasiFiction $24,000.00
7. TaTaTunes $16,500.00
8. KingGr $10,500.00
9. montjeu8 $7,050.00
Nearly 1500 players hoping for one last big score on Sunday entered PokerStars $215 “Second-chance” tournament. Two well-known online players made the final table. Jeff “yellowsub86″ Williams fresh off his 2nd place finish in a WSOP bracelet event took home 6th place and nearly $13,000. Online player, “nanonoko”, who is known for playing more than 20 tables at once finished 4th taking home over $22,000.
1. PitBrett $54,120.00
2. torkolort1 $39,150.00
3. govshark2 $30,000.00
4. nanonoko $22,500.00
5. Shiherlis35 $15,750.00
6. yellowsub86 $12,750.00
7. mattidm $9,750.00
8. bipolarbear1 $6,750.00
9. yadio $4,200.00
FTR is covering the FTOPS in separate articles, however, a Sunday cannot be complete with out Full Tilt Tournament results. Both the $2500+$120 2-day event and $500+$35 FTOPS Main Event concluded on Sunday. The $120+9 KO event also took place gaining a huge field of over 5700 participants.
FTOPS MAIN EVENT
1. dubbeemin - $432,400
2. valleyho - $262,500
3. TheTotalPkg - $170,000
4. Pokerguru19 - $132,500
5. sckilla - $100,000
6. hemlock1313 - $75,000
7. tvccsa - $57,500
8. aaaFRANCESCOzzz - $43,750
9. TiltinShoes - $32,500
FTOPS EVENT #22 $2500 2-DAY
1. hAAydon - $541,650
2. triathlon4 - $341,475
3. knickadam55 - $253,163
4. sebbau - $194,288
5. BootySmooth - $147,188
6. Tony G - $105,975
7. theMightyZep - $70,650
8. Yeshaya - $55,107
9. ClockWyze - $40,035
FTOPS EVENT #24 $400K GUARANTEE NLHE KO
1. Kroko-dill - $113,692
2. Hyperspiral - $69,765
3. Scarypooper5 - $50,507
4. BeatProphet - $35,600
5. soggy dogg - $25,839
6. kennl - $17,226
7. PapaWood619 - $11,484
8. c4s1n0 - $8,039
9. vcehorosho - $5,742
Full Tilt still ran it’s “Sunday Mulligan” $200+16 buy-in tournament which enticed over 1200 players to take one last shot at the big bucks. In the end, “vegan213″ took home first place and over $54,000 in prize money. Matt “MattSuspect” Molinari took home 6th place and over $11,000. Molinari is extremely well-known High Stakes MTT player. He has won the $109r on Stars and finished 3rd in a $200 FTOPS event held earlier this year.
1. vegan213 - $54,164
2. th_IN_kB3Urail - $34,468
3. Petie_BigStacks - $25,359
4. ship hamilton - $20,004
5. Lil Mooly - $15,388
6. MattSuspect - $11,079
7. mossified84 - $7,386
8. pugmug2 - $5,540
9. DumbHick - $3,939
Rounding out Sunday’s bigger buy-in tournaments is Bodog’s $100+9 $100k Guarantee. A tournament which tends to never reached it’s guarantee once again provided a huge overlay. With only 666 competitors Bodog was forced to add over $33,400 to the prize pool. As always some tough competitors reached the final table with “Jjbrut” finishing second behind “nikkiyayo” who took home the win and neraly $24,000 in prize money.
1. nikkiyayo - $23,600
2. jjbrut - $13,600
3. nickdodoublegee - $9,100
4. Oakplayer - $7,000
5. Remih - $5,700
6. alcarmo - $4,500
7. villus - $3,300
8. Ozone23 - $2,200
9. 1_newbie - $1,300
